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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3139080, member: 56859&quot;]I picked up another Priapus recently <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Trebonianus Gallus is one of the last emperors to display this deity and I wasn&#039;t aware he issued them-- there are no others in ACsearch and only two are cited in RPC IX.&nbsp; As far as I&#039;ve found, only Valerian and Gallienus after him put Priapus on their coins.&nbsp; If any of you have seen later examples, please let me know.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]802143[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>MYSIA, Lampsacus. Trebonianus Gallus</b></p><p>CE 251-253; Sossios, strategos</p><p>AE 23 mm, 5.3 gm</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; ΑVΤ Κ ΟVΙΒ ΤΡ ΓΑΛΛΟϹ; laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; ΛΑΝΨΑΚΗΝ ЄΠΙ ϹΤΡ ϹΟϹϹΙΟV; ithyphallic Priapus standing left on base, holding filleted thyrsus and pouring cantharus over altar</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; <a href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/394/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/394/" rel="nofollow">RPC IX 394</a>. Very rare.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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